Najia Popal

**** ******* **** *** ********** VA 22191

516-***-****

adzehi@r.postjobfree.com

US Citizen (Active Public Trust Clearance)

Professional Summary

●5 years of experience in preparing Test plans, Test methodology, Test scenarios, Test summary reports, Test cases, and Test documents for both automated and manual testing based on User requirements, System Requirements, and Use case documents.

●Experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), and Bug Life Cycle. Experience in Establishing QA Procedures and Standards,

●Proficiency in writing Test Plans, Documenting the Testing Procedures, and writing in-depth Test Cases to meet the Testing Cycle.

●Extensive experience in working in an agile scrum environment. Experienced with coordinating cross-functional teams, project management, and presenting technical ideas to diverse groups & proven ability to implement technology-based solutions for business problems.

●Identifying and tracking performance issues and defects during testing.

●Expertise in using Jira and Quality Center test management tool, Analyzing Requirements, Preparing Test Plans, Creating Test Cases and Executing Test Cases, and Reporting Defects.

●Performed various types of testing including Functional, Regression, System Integration, User Proficient in using Java for writing automation script.

●Strong Experience in Automating Web Application Testing using Selenium WebDriver with TestNG and Cucumber framework.

●Strong Experience in Java Programming, Selenium Web Driver, JUnit, and TestNG, Cucumber Expertise on using selenium web driver libraries to convert test cases to automated test scripts.

●Competence in debugging code for creating efficient automated scripts.

●Hands-on experience in Developing, Documenting, and Executing Test cases manually and generating Automation Scripts using Selenium.

●Expertise in Core Java and Object-Oriented Concepts (Inheritance, Polymorphism, Abstraction, Encapsulation,

●Exception Handling, Multi-Threading, and Collections) Experience in developing the features, scenarios, step definitions for BDD (Behavior Driven Development) and TDD (Test Driven Development) using Cucumber, Gherkin.

●Experienced in working with the TestNG framework for validating tests through assertions, creating test suites and generating test reports.

●Expert in efficient locator strategy including modified XPath, CSS selector, to run test script in steady condition.

●Experienced in Back-end testing, data validation and data integrity testing using SQL Queries. Excellent Communication skills, Documentation Skills, Team problem-solving ability, Analytical skills in a quality conscious and multitasking environment.

Skills

●Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Cucumber, Git, Maven, Jenkins

●Test Management. Tools: Jira, ALM

●Languages: Java, SQL

●Methodologies: Agile, Scrum.

●Platforms: Windows, Mac

●Application Tools: MS Office Suite (Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Outlook, Access).

Experience

QA Engineer, 08/2021 Current

United States Department of Commerce Washington, DC.

●Worked in SDLC process to participate in different phases of manual and automated testing.

●Used Agile software development methodology in defining the problem, gathering requirements, development iterations, business modeling and communicating with the technical team for development of the system and other Enterprise applications

●Testing the enhancements with its functionality change, Sanity and Regression testing

●Analyzed System Development Specification (SDS) and Functional Requirements Specifications (FRS)

●Created test scripts using Java and Selenium web driver

●Executed test automation for single test scripts and batch testing depending on test case requirements

●Implemented cross browser and cross platform web testing with Selenium WebDriver

●Used Junit and TestNG testing framework as a test runner with Selenium

●Used Selenium to expand test scenarios to catch more bugs and improve quality

●Designed and developed automated scripts for Functional, Regression, Sanity and Integration Testing using Selenium

●Created test scenarios and test cases based on functional documents and User stories

●Interacted with developers and business Users to communicate the defects and actively participated in replicating the bugs and performed regression testing before every release

●Performed data-driven, Functional, GUI, Black box and Regression testing using Selenium Web driver

●Used Jira for test script and test result management and bug tracking

●Attended weekly defect report meetings and presented progress update status.

QA Analyst, 09/2019 07/2021

M&T Bank Falls Church, VA

●Participated in Daily Scrum meeting, Stand-up meeting, walkthrough meeting and weekly assessment meetings

●Attended, discussed and submitted work progress weekly reports to Project Manager/Risk Owner

●Performed Successful discussion with all members, Project manager and QA Manager to collect data for automation and testing

●Used Application JIRA for tracking test requirements, references, test plans, defects and communicating them among the team members and developers

●Updated Test Plans and Test Cases periodically to manage changes in requirements.

●Developed automated test scripts using Selenium WebDriver from manual test cases.

●Created Test Scripts in BDD Framework using Java, Maven, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Junit

●Created Feature files in Gherkin Language, step definition and test results using Cucumber with Junit

●Created and enhanced numerous test scripts to handle changes in the objects, in the tested application's GUI and in the testing, environment using WebDriver

●Developed automation scripts on Web Based Application

●Performed Cross Browser tests on Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Google Chrome.

●Prepared Traceability Matrix to ensure the adequate coverage of the test cases

QA Manual Tester, 02/2018 08/2019

Marriott International, Inc Falls Church, VA

●Analyzed and maintained requirements and created Traceability Matrix (RTM) between Requirements and Test Cases.

●Created and managed test cases and detailed test procedures for administered software tests.

●Reviewed the documentation: Software Requirements Specification

●Participate in Quality Assurance process following Agile (SCRUM) Test Methodology

●Performed Hardware and software testing. Tested application and devices behavior under various interruptions

●Performed Re-Testing, Regression Testing at various phases of development life cycle for affected existing functionality

●Reported and monitored software defects using JIRA

●Execute test case and reporting bugs using classification and issue severity rating

●Worked with the team for requirement analysis, Test Strategy and Test Plan creation Wrote and executed new test procedures; updated test procedures as functionality changed during testing cycle.

●Involved in Functional, Integration, Regression, System, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) during the various phases of the application testing.

●Worked on SQL statements in checking the validity of the Backend.

●Documented and tracked software defects.

●Interacted with developers and Business Analysts to resolve defect issues.

Education

The Superior College

Bachelors of Science, Information Technology.

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